Truss-pad



(No Model.)

S. R'.'NYE.

v 'TRUSS PAD-p Ndl 290,095. f Patented Dec. 11,1883.A

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UNITED STATES- PATENT OFFICE. i

SHERMAN R. NYE OF CHICOPEE FALLS, MASSACHUSETTS.

lTRUSS-PAD.

SPEGIFICATIQN- forming part of Letters Patent No. 290,095, dated December 11, 1883.

. Application filed September 5, 1883. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SHERMAN R. NYE, of Chicopee Falls, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain Improvements in Truss-Pads, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its objectto provide certain improvements in the construction of the pad of ahernial truss, whereby liability of displacement of the pad .by the movements of the body is reduced to the minimum.

y To this end my invention consists in a pad composed of rigid socketed base-plate, and having shanks adapted to slide in the sockets of the base-plate, each section being pressed outwardly by a spring, and adapted to .yield independently, as I will now proceed to describe and claim.

Of the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 represents a front view of a pad embodying my improvement. Fig. 2 represents a section on line wx, Fig. 1. v

The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the figures.

In carrying o ut my invention, I providea pad having its front or bearing portion thatV presses against the wearers body made up of two or more independently-movable sections, a a, all supported on a suitable base attached to the body-band, and each provided with a spring which presses it against the body and allows it to yield independently. Each section ct is a disk of metal having a convex bearing or outer surface, and provided with a shank, c. The supporting-base is a plate, c, having tubular sockets c, which receive the shanks c, and permit the latter to slide lengthwise in the sockets.

Between each section a and the base is inu terposed a spiral spring, e, which is supported the body-band of the truss by the usual or any suitable means.

I have found by personal experience that the sectional bearingsurface thus formed and the independentlyyielding movement of each section enable the pad to conform to any and all variations ink the contour of that portion of the body on which the Apad bears, and prevent the pad from being displaced by muscular exertion.

Being myself a wearer of a'hernial truss, I

have found that with a pad having a continuous bearing-surface certain movements of the body-such as are involved by raising the arms above the headalmost inevitably produce displacement of the pad. My improved pad, however, is not displaced by such movements7 but remains in its proper position during any position or movement of the body.

If desired, the sections a may be covered with chamois-skin or other like material, and each may be provided with a separate covering, or all may be included under a single cover, which should be sufficiently flexible to conform to the independent movements of the sections. a

I am aware that a truss-pad composed-of a dome-shaped spring-back and a central conical spring-cushion is shown in Letters Patent of the United States No. 140,168. My pad differs from this, however, in that its sections are guided by the rigid socketed back, so that they move in parallel directions toward and -from the base-plate, and each has a broad 

